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    Naming stock/tuned file structure

    How are you guys/gals labeling your stock read files? Then once tuned, how are you labeling those files? Thought I had a method to my madness but after two years of reads, I come to the conclusion that my folders are lacking some serious structure and organization .
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    Curious about this too..
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    Interesting question I don't think I've heard talked about. It's kind of a big deal for me since I log every time I drive and tune constantly. I realize you mentioned tune files, those I just number with a brief description of the changes. My tune file names also have the car's descriptor in it also, like "08 Sky LSA tune 1371 reduced idle adapt coastdown air". Every once in a while I'll do a full read and also when I get a solid tune I name those with something I can easily recognize and go back to for a compare file, like "Bad Cad tune 73, ran excellent for 8 months". Customer tunes always have the person's name in the file like "S Jones 12 CTSV tune 17 kr control" or "Ziegler GTS tune 67 Sonoma smoother DALs". For dyno or track testing, I try to name the logs so that they can be easily related to the specific tune, like "Ziegler GTS Sonoma test day tune 67 log".

    So for logging every time I drive, I needed a really fast way to name log files though so I can stop the log, save it and close the program quickly. I wanted the date in the name so it's easy to find a certain day's drive. I also wanted a brief descriptor of what the drive was. For that, I've come up with names like "72416 tw", "72416 fw 60-100", 72416 lah w brad driving" or "12815 perfect e85 cold start". "tw" is to work and fw is obviously from work. lah is a town in the nearby hills I often go to for "spirited" drives. lol. For those that noticed, yes, the date code could be read incorrectly like "12815" being december 8th or january 28th, but if the date is that important you can always look at the file creation date to verify. The reason I do it all in one number is because when you're inputing dates on a touchscreen putting spaces, dashes or backslashes in the date takes WAY too long when you're late for work! lol.

    Maybe there's an idea in there that can help you with your naming system.
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    I don't have customer cars or do this for a living so I never really save my logs. I will save them for the day I did it and just look at the save time then just delete them when I'm done with what I'm doing.

    Tune files I just name what is done, like 2012 Silverado Engine+Trans 4,5,6 etc etc and maybe name the biggest change after that. Makes it easy for me to know what I last changed and if I only change one minor thing I don't save it under a new name. It's just my way of doing things and I don't have a ton of files like someone with a shop would.
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    Cool thing now is the revision history that V3 keeps.. so that makes it easy to see what you changed recently. Though obviously that doesn't necessarily remind you why you changed whatever was changed
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    I normally put customers last name,last two digits of year, make and model. It works okay, but thinking about dropping the customers name out. I was just curious to see how other people name their files. Been thinking about creating a folder for each customer to put all tunes,stock reads,logs..etc in, but figured in the end, I would just be creating more work for myself. Also it seems that it would create a mess when trying to find a file for comparing.
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    Remember that VCM Editor 3.2 has full binary history. You can open up any previous version of the file, straight from the history form. Right click any snapshot to open it as a compare, or in a new VCM Editor instance.
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    Yup. That is one of the nicest features IMO.

    And you can see what people have done when the post tunes.. so when they say "I haven't changed anything.." you can at least see if that's possibly true or not.
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    I usually just name what the major change I was doing was, since I usually just change one thing at a time so that I can see the results. Then I put a sequence number behind it so that I know the last one I did. I also have the file hierarchy set to "Date modified"

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    When I started out years ago, I use the formats:

    2002 5.7 M6 3.42 Camaro John Doe = stock
    2002 5.7 M6 3.42 Camaro John Doe old tune (if previous tuned or not known)
    2002 5.7 M6 3.42 Camaro John Doe base tune (first flash) then 01, 02, etc
    2002 5.7 M6 3.42 Camaro John Doe DONE once tune was finished

    Then I would go back and keep stock and done and delete the rest. That worked good and I always could remember people's names and the vehicles so if I wanted to refer to a tune I would just open up John Doe's tune and be done. Here is the flaw to my system, 15 years and thousands of tunes later I can't remember half the people or vehicles I tuned so it's just a list of tunes basically. A few years ago I added the ECM and OS to the beginning of the file especially if using EFI Live since you cant compare different OS with it. That still doesnt solve the problem of knowing what was done to the vehicle when looking at the name of the tune years later. I tihnk it would be better if you had separate folders for maybe stock, bolt ons, heads and cam, and maybe power adder and saved them that way. Would love to see what other people do.

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    I have a tuning folder for each software suite I have
    then I have sub folders labelled by the vehicle vin, with basic info( ex vin-2010 camaro-6.2-supercharged)
    within the folder I always label the file I pull as "base" (ex vin-2010 camaro-6.2-supercharged-base)
    then I pull a stock file from the repository, or a known stock file that I may already have, lets not forget that just because a customer says its stock, does not mean it is actually a stock file. I will lable the new file as stock ( ex vin-2010 camaro-6.2-supercharged-stock)

    then from there all files are labeled as tune1, tune2, etc as I progress throgh the tuning process ( ex vin-2010 camaro-6.2-supercharged-tune1)

    All tune files and saved logs are held within the vehicle subfolder, I will also save any special configs I do for certain builds within that same folder for use at a later time
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    Quote Originally Posted by Keith@HPTuners View Post
    Remember that VCM Editor 3.2 has full binary history. You can open up any previous version of the file, straight from the history form. Right click any snapshot to open it as a compare, or in a new VCM Editor instance.
    Keith, love that feature..I have a methodology that I save by but between the auto save in the Scanner and the editor history file, it is a great backup system....

    One question, can we change (or have the option to change) the calender format.....:-)

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    So my latest naming convention is as follows. Developed it because I have many clients and was getting abstract file names which after 2-3 days meant nothing to my short time memory :-).

    I set up my main Folder headings by Clients Name and save both the logs and tunes in their folder under "Logs and Tunes" (Copied HP Tuners :-)) The naming scheme starts with YEAR>MODEL>TYPE OF TUNE (stock, start, modified etc.)>TUNING PHASE with NUMERICAL REVISION (i.e Startup is SU1 after a modification is is SU2, next mod is SU3 etc.). Other Phases include, but are not limited to Idle (IDL), MAF Scan (MS), VE Scan (VES), Partial Pull (PP), Full Pull (FP), Road Test (RT) etc.> OPEN or CLOSED LOOP (OL or CL) then MISC (a few characters that might help differentiate this tune at a glance) and finally the data...081016. I use the same naming convention for the Scan logs as well so I know which Edit File developed what Log at a glance.

    Other Folders under each client include a mirror FOLDER for TCM based Transmission files (if applicable), an ARCHIVE for putting away old/obsolete info that might be useful later (9 times out of 10 it gets trashed in a few weks :-)), TRACK (if applicable etc.

    Most times I add a .txt file at the top of the clients Folder describing his vehicle, modifications, complaints etc...copy over any pertinent emails or phone call notes as well....kind of like a README file.

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    Quote Originally Posted by mowton View Post
    One question, can we change (or have the option to change) the calender format.....:-)

    Ed M
    What would you change it from/to?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Keith@HPTuners View Post
    Remember that VCM Editor 3.2 has full binary history. You can open up any previous version of the file, straight from the history form. Right click any snapshot to open it as a compare, or in a new VCM Editor instance.
    That is a pretty cool feature. Can the history be edited or deleted?

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